Hi John, and welcome to FreeRepublic. A little procedural note - the powers that be would prefer that you post the actual title of the article and not a paraphrase. In this case the title should be: “One Congressman, Rand Paul, the GOP and What Ails American Politics”
The reason why we do this is to try to reduce multiple posting of the same article. You might consider asking a moderator to change it for you.
As to the article itself, this guy Rigell strikes me as a weasel. He can’t be stupid enough not to know what consequence his actions are going to spawn so it is especially weenie of him to be whining now.
I understand that but that title is boring (as is most of NJ’s content) so I decided to give it a better title, no harm in that. I doubt anyone will post the same article from that rag!